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...decades one of the special delights of childhood has been to hack the tops off cereal cartons, stuff them into an envelope, pound on a stamp, and send away the lumpy packet. The boxtops, plus a coin or two, eventually elicit a "prize." The agony of the wait is exquisite, and the day some ticky-tack gadget arrives can be a private little Christmas...
...these positions, Felker made his mark as an innovator, but he insists that he has no plans for "intermingling" the Voice and New York and promises that differences between the two will be preserved: "They're passionate about some things, we're passionate about others. They can pound away week after week on a single issue in a way that we can't." To reports that he is considering a nationwide network of city magazines, which could use articles from both New York and the Voice, Felker admits that "it's theoretically possible. There are three...
...read, much less memorize and deliver a lengthy presentation to total strangers. Fred Fadukas, the bloke on my right, looked like something out of Famous Monster Magazine--truely grotesque--with a speech impediment to boot. He did not return after the second class. Betty Sue Bumptious, a 250-pound beauty, was worse. Couldn't even remember her own name: When the supervisor asked her to recite her speech, she hadn't even memorized the first line, and couldn't manage to repeat it when the supervisor read...
...Palmer, supermarket-stock analyst of Wall Street's Bregman Securities Co., reports that last fall A. & P. began hiking its prices substantially in the Midwest and Northeast. A recent comparison-shopping survey by the Croton Consumer Action Organization in New York's Westchester County found that a pound of Oscar Mayer bacon cost $1.39 at A. & P. v. $1.19 at Grand Union; a 9-oz. package of Birds Eye frozen green beans, 33? v. 31?; Kraft mayonnaise, 63? v. 69?; 5 lbs. of Florida oranges 89? v. 69?; a pound of Land O'Lakes butter...
Allan Littman, 17, consumed a pound of grapes, with seeds, in 52 sec. to crush the old mark of 65 sec. Allan Greenberg, 22, twirled a record album on his forefinger for 5 hr. Bruce Stewart and Robert Argust slapped each other's faces for 31 hr. to top the old record by one hour. Frank Dolce blew 116 smoke rings on one drag to break the old high...